The Game of Thrones Cast Isn't Allowed to Know How the Show Ends

As Game of Thrones approaches its final two seasons, a big question is looming over fans' minds: how will the show end? One thing is certain—the cast has no idea, and the showrunners plan to keep it that way.

"No one knows anything. No one is told anything. It’s all crazy," Emilia Clarke (who stars as Daenerys Targaryen) told the LA Daily News. “It’s a secret from the cast. We generally can’t be trusted. They pretty much have told us so.”

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This level of secrecy, even between the writers and the cast, is not new on Game of Thrones. The producers were similarly tight-lipped about Jon Snow's "death" at the end of season five. Kit Harington had to tell his costars that he was not returning for the following season in order to keep the truth about Snow's fate hidden.

"I had to lie to a lot of close friends and cast members and crew," Harington revealed last year. "The longer it went, the more I felt like I was betraying them. So I did end up letting people in, slowly."

As of right now, major plot points for season seven are also still kept secret, but we'll find out what really happens when Game of Thrones returns to HBO on July 16.

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